Tag: BLOCKS

I like to think of Clockwork Monster's Blosics as a sort of backwards-Jenga-with-cannonballs. Click in the green circle to "arm" a projectile and hold the button to increase the shot's power. You'll need to use finesse and play your angles well once the game introduces red blocks. Knocking green ones from the platform earns you points, while red ones penalize you. Earn 100 points or more, ...

Phytrix is another entry into the venerable genre of falling block games. Pieces in various shapes and colors descend from the ceiling, and your objective is to rapidly organize them so that three or more blocks of the same color are touching, which makes those blocks disappear. Yes, it's two classic games - Tetris and Match 3 - rolled into one. That's not all, though. Each level of Phytrix has ...

I've seen a ton of Tetris variants in my day, and Tetris'd is a wild one. It's not even a puzzle game: it's a platformer, with Tetris blocks as the platforms. You play a tiny, acrobatic person (a ninja, maybe?) who can jump and climb on the blocks as they fall, and the object is to survive for as long as possible without getting squished or falling off the board. The controls are tricky: there ...

Tetris-style games that involve arranging falling blocks have seen a lot of variations. Game-makers have tried adding odd pieces, weirdly-shaped game boards and bombs, just to name a few. In Equanimity, the twist is physics-based: the board is a balance beam, and you lose a life for every piece that falls off. The pieces don't interlock, though, like in Tetris. They're various geometric shapes, ...

Tower Bloxx is a game of precision, timing, and stacking. It allows you to take that skill that you learned as a baby (stacking blocks), and use it in a quick and mildly entertaining little flash game on your computer. The concept is that you are building an apartment tower out of identical blocks. Each block swings from a crane above, and your job is to pick the exact right moment to click and ...

Finding Time Wasters to blog about should be considered a high-risk activity. While there's no doubt that it's a fun way to spend our time, the truth is that our productivity takes a serious hit every time we start testing out possibilities for inclusion as daily time wasters. Some are worse than others in this regard, but recently Blocky has been stealing a ridiculous amount of our time. Like ...

Bloxorz is a game with a silly name, but great gameplay. While there are millions of puzzle games out there, few come close to matching the fun and challenge of Tetris. Though Bloxorz does. Now, to be perfectly clear, Bloxorz is not a Tetris clone. In fact, the gameplay in Bloxorz couldn't be more different. The Tetris comparision is simply to point out that we think the game is that good, ...